OMB, NASA Push Academy Review Of EPA Trichloroethylene Assessment

The White House and other federal agencies are urging EPA to submit its new draft risk assessment of the ubiquitous solvent trichloroethylene (TCE) for review by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), a move that could further slow the assessment already long-delayed by interagency disagreement about the chemical's risks. EPA's draft TCE risk assessment is more than 10 years in the making. The Defense Department (DOD) and the National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA), which feared a 2001 draft assessment...